LIFT 2018 programme announced

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LIFT 2018 is a 4 week festival taking place in London in June, full of exciting and powerful performances which will showcase extraordinary talent from across the globe.

We’re thrilled to announce that we will be part of LIFT 2018 festival with Fatherlandon at the Lyric Hammersmith from Sat26 May – Sat 23 June.

Fatherland is a vivid, urgent and deeply personal portrait of 21st-century Britain at the crossroads of past, present and future. Inspired by conversations with fathers and sons from the trio’s home towns in the heart of the country, the show explores identity, nationality, masculinity – and what it means to belong in a world weighed down by the expectations of others. Tender and tough, honest and true, Fatherland is a vital and necessary show about what we were, who we are and what we’d like to become.

The fantastic full LIFT 2018 programme can be viewed on LIFT festival’s website.

Our highlights include Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music: The First Actat The Barbican, Punchdrunk’s special show Small Wonders for 5-11 year olds, and our friends 14-18 NOW are co-producing US artist Duke Riley’s Fly By Night, which will see 1,500 trained, LED-wearing pigeons soar over East Thamesmead in a beautiful homage to the 100,000-plus carrier pigeons that aided the British effort during the First World War.

“From the iconic buildings, renowned stages and unusual, hidden spaces in which our festival takes place, we welcome global citizens to create work as a signifier to everyone; whether you were born here, have made it your home or are just passing through, you belong here.”